Thematic Bible: Vices
Thematic Bible
Vices » Dishonesty » Condemned
A FALSE balance is an abomination to LORD, but a just weight is his delight.
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[He is] a Canaanite. The balances of deceit are in his hand. He loves to oppress.
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Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
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As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
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It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
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Thou shall not have in thy bag diverse weights, a great and a small.
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Diverse weights, and diverse measures, both of them alike are an abomination to LORD.
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,
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Vices » Dishonesty » Unjust gain
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.
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Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice, who uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire,
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Better is a little, with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.
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He who oppresses a poor man to his increase, [and] he who gives to a rich man, [comes] only to want.
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He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
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Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou have made, and at thy blood which has been in the midst of thee.
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Behold the wage of the workmen who reaped your fields. The man who was defrauded by you cries out. And the outcries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of Lord of hosts.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Extortion
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood. Thou have taken interest and increase. And thou have greedily gained from thy neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me, says lord LORD.
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Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
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But after going out, that bondman found one of his fellow bondmen who owed him a hundred denarii. And having grabbed him, he choked him, saying, Pay me if thou owe anything.
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Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside they are full of plunder and unrighteousness.
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And he said to them, Collect not one thing more than from what has been appointed for you.
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and not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with greedy men, or with predators, or with idolaters, since then ye would need to go out of the world.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Examples of
And Jezebel his wife said to him, Do thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry. I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
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And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water which Abimelech's servants had taken away violently.
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And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours. And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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These twenty years I have been in thy house. I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock. And thou have changed my wages ten times.
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Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken from what was set apart, and have also stolen, and also dissembled. And they have even put it among their own stuff.
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And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me. I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be m
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And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. And the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men g
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Vices » Found in business » Breach of trust
If a soul sins, and commits a trespass against LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,
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Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were incensed against me. They made me keeper of the vineyards, [but] my own vineyard I have not kept.
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Thou also took thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and made for thee images of men, and played the harlot with them.
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And if ye did not become faithful in the alien, who will give thine to you?
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Vices » Dishonesty » Of children
And he went up from there to Bethel. And as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.
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Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
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Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor. The child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
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Vices » Dishonesty » Fraud
Thou shall not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
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Thou know the commandments. Thou shall not commit adultery. Thou shall not murder. Thou shall not steal. Thou shall not testify falsely. Thou shall not defraud. Thou shall honor thy father and mother.
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Instead ye do wrong, and defraud, and these things to brothers.
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Related Topics
- Abominations
- Abominations, To God
- Accuracy
- Balances, Dishonest Use
- Balances, For Business
- Business Ethics
- Buying and selling
- Cheating
- Commerce
- Covenant breakers
- Coveting
- Deceit, Practice Of
- Deception, Forbidden By God
- Dishonesty
- Dishonesty Condemned
- Dishonesty, Examples Of
- Dishonesty, Kinds Of
- Disrespect For Old Age
- Do Not Steal
- Employers
- Extortion
- Extortion, Examples Of
- Fraud
- Grasping
- Greed
- Greed, Condemnation Of
- Helping The Poor
- Hiring
- Immaturity
- Injustice
- Injustice, Examples Of
- Injustice, Nature And Source Of
- Interest
- Just Weights
- Manipulation
- Markets
- Masters
- Money, Stewardship Of
- Not Helping The Poor
- Oppression, Nature Of
- Oppressors
- Outcry
- Poor, Oppression Of
- Poverty, Causes Of
- Profits
- Rich, The
- Riches, Dangers Of
- Riches, Ungodly Use Of
- Saving Money
- Servants, Bad
- Servants, Working Conditions Of
- Serving Individuals
- Settling Accounts
- Social duties
- Stealing
- Trade
- Treasure
- Trustworthiness
- Under The Ban
- Unjust Gain
- Wages
- Weights And Measures, Laws
- Work, And The Fall
- Balance
- Cheaters
- Oppression
- Taxes
- Weight